Gyrodinium hyalinum (A.J.Schilling) Kofoid & Swezy 1921
Publication details
Gyrodinium hyalinum (A.J.Schilling) Kofoid & Swezy 1921: 311, fig. CC [200]: 15
Published in: Kofoid, C.A. & Swezy, O. (1921). The free-living unarmored Dinoflagellata. Memoirs of the University of California 5: i-viii, 1-562.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gyrodinium is Gyrodinium spirale (Bergh) Kofoid & Swezy.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Gymnodinium hyalinum A.J.Schilling
Basionym
Gymnodinium hyalinum A.J.Schilling
Origin of species name
Adjective A (Latin), glassy, hyaline, glassy-green.
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a freshwater species.
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Source of current name
Moestrup, Ø. & Calado, A.J. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Dinophyceae. Vol. 6 pp. [i]-xii, [1]-560, 421 figures. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.
Key references
Javornický, P. (1967). Some interesting algal flagellates. Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica 2: 43-67.
Kisselev, I.A. (1954). Opredelitel' presnovodnykh vodorosley SSSR. Pirofitovyye vodorosli [Manual for identification of the freshwater algae of the USSR. Dinoflagellates]. Vol. 6 pp. 212, 112 figures. Moscow: Sovetskaya Nauka. [in Russian]
Krakhmalny, A.F. (2011). Dinofitovyye vodorosli Ukrainy (illyustirovannyy opredelitel') [Dinophyta of Ukraine (illustrated book for identification)]. pp. 442, 32 figures, 117 plates. Kyiv: Alterpres. [in Russian with English abstract]
Popovsky, J. & Pfiester, L.A. (1990). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Dinophyceae (Dinoflagellida). Vol. 6 pp. 1-272. Jena & Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer.
Schiller, J. (1933). Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae) in monographischer behandlung.. In: Dr. L. Rabenhosrst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 2. Aufl. 10. Bd 3. Abt. 1 Teil. (Kolkwitz, R. Eds), pp. 433-617. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H.
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